Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 518

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000034 See all items with this value

Translator

Poggio Bracciolini (Poggius Florentinus) See all items with this value

Work

Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 518 See all items with this value

Date

[Central Italy, second half of the 15th century] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

300 x 220
III + 114 + III' (II-III and I-II' are of parchment and original)
11 quires: I(10), II-III (12), IV-XI(10) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Annotations

Notabilia by the main scribe See all items with this value

Decoration

Unidentified coat of arms on the verso of the second front flyleaf (IIv).
Space for initials blank.

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

Fol. IIIr: ancient shelfmark "n° 11". Fols. II'r: "Clementis <...> -ii", probably a note of ownership partly illegible. See all items with this value

Bibliography

- Lami, Giovanni, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Riccardiana Florentiae adservantur, Liburni, ex Typographio Antonii Santini et sociorum, 1756, 162-163.
- Monfasani, John, "Diodorus Siculus", in: Dinkova-Bruun, Greti (ed.), Catalogus translationum et commentariorum. Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries, vol. 11, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016, 61-152, at 100.

Record last updated

22 October 2024